Dr. Michael Breen is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. His research is focused on international political economy, particularly the politics of finance, the role of international organisations in the global economy, and the International Monetary Fund. He is also interested in the political economy of corruption and anti-corruption policies and is co-director of DCU's Anti-Corruption Research Centre. He has written many articles on these topics, including articles in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, and the European Journal of International Relations. His most recent book publication is the co-authored, Resilient Reporting: Media Coverage of Irish Elections Since 1969 (Manchester University Press, 2019). His first book, The Politics of IMF Lending, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. He is an External Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He is also a member of Transparency International's expert advisory network. In 2018, he was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy. From 2016-18, he completed a two-year term as a member of the Royal Irish Academy's International Affairs Committee. He was Secretary of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (2014-5) and Programme Chairperson of DCU’s MA in International Relations and MA in International Security and Conflict Studies (2012-2017).

Academic, interested in policing, the lived experience of being policed, police reform, police accountability, police governance, police corruption. Also abortion law and reform, especially the criminalisation of abortion. I've been an academic for nearly 20 years and worked across the UK and Ireland. Now based in Dublin City University. I have also served on the Policing Authority of Ireland, and the Commission on the Future of Policing. I have written extensively on police accountability in Ireland, including two monographs. I host a podcast called Policed in Ireland (@policedpodcast )

Anne Marie Champagne is a junior fellow with the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale, where she is a doctoral candidate in sociology. Her thesis examines how mastectomy informs perceptions of gender identity and wellness in American law, medicine, and society. She is the editor (with Asia Friedman) of Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter (BUP, June 2023). Her research interests include the politics of aesthetics, culture, body and embodiment, sex and gender, and the civil sphere.

Sonila Danaj is a researcher and project coordinator at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research. She has worked as a researcher for fifteen years doing research and coordinating projects in the areas of employment, migration and social policy. At the European Centre, she has been managing and acting as researcher for four projects on posted workers and doing research for several others, where Western Balkans countries have been included as case studies. Some of the recent projects where she has used her expertise on the WB include Posting of Workers in Eastern Europe (EEPOW) project, Posting of third country nationals: Mapping the trend in the construction sector (Con3Post), Bridging the gap between legislation and practice in the posting of workers (POW-Bridge), Support for better social services for the most vulnerable groups in Kosovo, and Integrated case management for employment and social welfare users in the Western Balkans. Sonila is also a PHD Candidate at the University of Jyvaskyla, in Finland, where she is finalizing a dissertation on Eastern European labour migrants in the EU labour market. Previously, she has also served as a research consultant for various international organizations and NGOs.